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The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Transpacific Matter (EP3475)

The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Fiction, Drama, Arts

4.4941 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Johnny goes to Hong Kong to investigate a suspicious claim from a company Johnny believes got away with a phony claim on a case where the investigator was sent home in a casket. Audition Date: November 24, 1952 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ...

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0:00.0

Coming up this week on the old-time radio snack wagon.

0:04.9

And today, with the cooperation of All India Radio, you're going to have the pleasure of hearing a group of very carefully made selections of Indian music.

0:13.5

Now, this Indian music is rather different from American or Western music, as you'll notice as we go along.

0:19.2

Listen to the old-time radio snack wagon, snackwagon.net,

0:23.4

or wherever you get your podcast.

0:58.4

Music Welcome to the great detectivesives of Old Time Radio.

1:03.0

From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.

1:09.3

If you have a comment, email it to me, Box 13 at greatdetectives.net.

1:14.6

Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detactives and become one of our friends on Facebook. Facebook.com slash radio detectives.

1:18.2

A reminder as you're making your travel plans, remember Johnny Dollarair.com.

1:22.9

Johnny Dollar.air.com is a priceline affiliate, so you get all the benefits of going through

1:27.7

prosline.com. But part of the purchase price supports the great detectives of old time

1:33.0

radio at no additional cost to you. So remember when making your travel plans, check Johnny

1:38.4

dollarair.com first. Well, now it's time for this week's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.

1:45.9

We're going to be getting into the John Lund era.

1:49.0

Johnny Dollar went back off the air at the end of the summer series and would return in November.

1:55.0

With John Lund as the lead.

1:57.9

We'll talk about Lund after the program, but he was very respected within the industry.

2:04.7

He was vice president of the screen actors guild. So again, very competent, very respected within the industry.

2:12.2

Now, it's interesting to note that CBS did experiment with the five-part format, which would become the hallmark of the early years of Bob Bailey's run on Johnny Dollar, although opting to do the half-hour episodes.

2:29.6

So we're going to bring you an audition for what a serialized John Lund program would look like.

2:39.5

And what they did is they took an Edmund O'Brien script, and they expanded some parts of it,

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